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Note
Date 1982
Event ID 1145885
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Note
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Rinyo HY 4398 3224 HY43SW 20
Situated on a terrace about 200m NE of Bigland, an extensive settlement of neolithic date was revealed by excavations in 1937-8 and 1946. At least seven houses were represented, some superimposed, the best preserved measuring about 5.5m across, with central hearths, 'beds' and floor-boxes. Several of the houses were furnished with drains. The base of a clay oven has been preserved in NMAS along with the pottery, flint and stone objects. The site has now been backfilled and is marked only by a few upright slabs and stretches of drystone walling.
RCAHMS 1982
(Plans in Orkney Archives, copies in NMRS; The Scotsman 30 July 1938; Childe and Grant 1939; Childe and Grant 1947; RCAHMS 1946, ii, p. 227, No. 609 and pp. 362-4, appendix No. 4; Switsur and Harkness in Renfrew 1979, 72 and 206; Ritchie and Ritchie 1981, 42-3; OR 633)
